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rhetoric as life improving (Nicomachean Ethics: What is a good life? (The…
rhetoric as life improving
Aristotle
Is rhetoric art?
Rhetoric is
logical: shakespeare identifies a technique as do many poets.
Poetics: A manual on how to write tragedy. Also how use language to persuade i.e rhetoric.
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Rhetoric is the counterpart of the dialectic
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Art like tragedy is helpful for catharsis
plato - rhetoric needs morality
Socratic dialectic manipulates people's thinking
Rhetoric is a tool: it can be used for good or evil. So can the dialectic. It is reason that must be questioned
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Gorgais: rhetoric is not an art but mere flattery. It needs philosophy to guide it.
Plato separates eloquence and wisdom
Platonic dualism is bad for civilization
language as deceit
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Political ends
Manipulate people to gain power
Indoctrination: Nazi, Communism
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Machiavellian politics
rhetoric to hide lack of knowledge
To hide more sinister intentions
Rhetoric can give people hope: Obama
Cicero: great oratory exists in times of need
Famous speeches happen in extream situation: Gettysburg address, churchill, I have a dream
Modernity people feel alienated from politics
Nicomachean Ethics: What is a good life?
The only job for philosophy?
Life is not about happiness but eudaimon - flourish
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